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Miller, Kevin R wrote:
> I am running Tomcat 6.0.26 on a Solaris 10 system. The Tomcat server is configured to
listen to HTTPS communications on port 8443. When browsing to the Tomcat server remotely
using the following syntax everything works as expected:
> https://10.10.10.10:8443/
>
> If however we accidentally leave out the "s" in https like this:
> http://10.10.10.10:8443/
>
> The Tomcat server responds with a 7 byte .exe file to download. Each time we make the
request again it generates a new .exe file with a different name (cd64dni2.exe or z0v8671g.exe
for example). The exe fail fails to execute on a windows system. The contents of all of
the exe files are exactly the same (binary data)
>
> If I run an od on the file I get the following:
> $od cd64dni2.exe
> 0000000 001425 000001 001002 000012
> 0000007
>
>
> Can anyone explain what this file is and why it is getting generated?
>
Not before we are sure that it is really being generated.
Which browser are you using, and have you tried another one to check if the symptoms are
the same ?
Additionally, get a browser plugin such as Fiddler2 (for IE) or HttpFox (for Firefox),
activate the plugin, then look at what your browser is *really* receiving from the server.
Purpose :
Some versions of IE have a habit of "second-guessing" the server (which it should not be
doing according to the HTTP RFC), and deciding itself that what the server sends back is
this or that, even when the server says otherwise.
You will want to make sure that your Tomcat is really sending back this "thing", and that
it is not just the browser saying that it is this thing.
Note that the plugins above are invaluable tools to quickly diagnose browser/server
conversation issues, so you will not lose your time downloading and installing one of them
anway.
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